The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-11-30
MINOR MENTION.

Miss Lillian Olcott is writing life of
Sardou.
The coffee tree, in its native state,
otter grows to the height of twenty to
thirty feet.
White lalacs are first choice for bridal
nosegays, with Lilies of the Valley a
good second.
Avoid causes OF irritation in your
family circle; reflect that home is the
place to be agreeable.
There is in England society conduc>
ted by ladies for the promoting of long
servi'e among servants. Valuable prizes
are given.
Wax flowers were first introduced in
to England by the mother OF Mary
Beatrice. wife of James H., as q present
to her royal daughter.
Mrs. Jessie p. Barnes, of Brooklyn,
has been elected member OF the faculty
of Washington College, Irving, Cal, to
take charge of the department of music.
Countless knights were slain before
St. George won the battle. In the bat
tie Of life we are all going to try for the
honors of championship.
Mrs. DR.. Ellis, an American lady, is
physician to the Queen of Corea. She
has apartments in the royal palace at
Seoul, and receives an annual salary of
ten thousand dollars.
Tbs value of three things is Justly
appreciate by three classes of persons
The value of youth by the old, value OF
health by the deceased, the value Of
wealth by the needy.
Whole cloves are now used to exter.
inmate the mcrcless and industrious
moth. 1t is said they are more eiTectua!
as destroying agent than either tobac>
60, camphor CT cedar shavings.
Hannah More, who exercised great
and unsurpassed influence for good over
our grandmothers' minds, and who was
an eminent authoress in the best sense
of the word, was plain woman.
An interesting prize competition was
opened :hort time since in 'Week and
Leisure for the greatest number Of in
stances of distinguished men of whose
mothers anything favorable or unfavora-
bic is known.
Among the recent graduates Of the
Woman's Medical College in New York
city is Kin Yamei. Chinese gil, who
had taken the highest position in the
class. she is an accomplished scholar,
able TO converse and write accurately in
five languages.
Queen Victoria is mourning the death
Of an old nurse, Miss Skerritt. who re-
Gently passed away at the mature age OF
uinety.four. Miss Skelritt had seen
service under Queens Charlotte and
Adelaide, and had nursed Queen Vic
toria, the Prince Of Wales and other
royal children.
A new periodical, woman, to appear
weekly, has been commenced. Tie first
number ip each month will contain
Nursing Notes, and articles of special
interest TO nurses, extracts from medical
journals, reports of nursing associations,
etc. The rest of the paper is devoted to
reports of meetings on women's subjects
and philanthropic work.
In Finland, according to Bayerd Tay-
lor, the women resent as en- insult sa-
late upon the lips A Finnish matron,
hearing of our English custom of kiss
ing, declared that did her husband at
tempt such ibortv she would treat
him with such box on the ears that he
should not readily forget.
'Bisvigum' is newly coined French
word. 1t is compounded of the words
biscuit, viands, legume. and is used to
designate new kind of composite food
recently introduced in the French army
by General Boulanger, and which can
be canverted into soup or stew ac-
cording to the taste of the eater
Mrs. Sarah Jacques Small, VINO died
recently at Bowdoinham, Me-, aged one
hundred and four years and eight
months, when we'll in'o the nineties,
spun over three hundred skeins of yarn
and wove twenty yards of cloth, ali
wool. In the last years OF ber life she
knit doubble miltens AMI stockings
enough for regiment OF men. She was
a great worker Ill her cysight failed at
about one hundred.
I have sometimes thought that we
cannot know any man thoroughly we'll
while he is in reIfecl health. rs the
ebb.tide discloses the real lines of the
shore aud the bed of the sea, so ieeble>
ness, sickness and pain bring out the
real character of q man. For years he
pushed away the hand that was reach
inc for his heart>strings and bravely
worked on until the last hour do not
doubt that his will and cheerful cour-
age prolonged his life many years.
Garfield.
P. T. Baruum has just purchased an
enormous amount OF re j estate in Bridge
port. Conn 1t consists of great sract
of land situated in the centre tf the
ci:v. and includes five churches, the old
court house, six livery stables, tree
bank buildings, al the stores on the
wes. side of Main street and more than
one hundred residences and dwellings.
The properly is worth over 100000
Mr.. BaInum's grandson, Clinton II.
Seelev, will at once erect large brick
block on a portion OF the unoccupie5